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(It would’ve been much easier had I watched OWC’s how-to installation video, which hadn’t yet been posted when I installed the product in my iPod.
#Iflash cracked#
I’ve never cracked open an iPod before, and I managed to do it just fine, though the install process was a little harrowing at a few points. If you’re not comfortable poking around in the guts of electronics, you might want to find a friend to perform the installation for you. It’s also no longer relying on a spinning platter as a storage mechanism, which should extend its life dramatically.Ĭracking open an iPod and replacing its hard drive isn’t for the timid.
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Now my old iPod has doubled in capacity, enough to fit every song I own. But lately it’s been showing signs of age that made me fear for the life of its internal spinning hard drive, and I haven’t been able to load our entire music library onto it for years.īut recently I got a chance to try out Other World Computing’s $49 iFlash, an upgrade that replaces the iPod’s hard drive (5th and 6th generation models only) with an SD card reader (with inserted SD card-I used a 128GB SDXC card that cost about $70). Our family minivan came with a USB connector in the glove compartment, and so for years I’ve kept a 60GB fifth-generation iPod Classic 1 in there, loaded up with as much music as I could fit.
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Revitalizing an old iPod with OWC’s iFlash adapter